Hair Accessories

Offer your customers a varied line of hair accessories they'll love
By Kristina Seleshanko Whether they have long hair, short hair, curly hair or straight hair, women love hair accessories. Versatile and fun, clips, barrettes, hair sticks and tiaras help women and girls look great and feel good about themselves. Fortunately, it's easy to find a good selection of hair accessories for your business.

Before buying hair accessories, however, consider how your customers will use them. Are your customers most likely young women wanting hair ornaments to make their prom hairdos look even better? Are they older women who want practical and functional accessories? Or maybe they’re mothers with girls and babies, who want their children to look even cuter? Consider the three basic categories of hair accessories:

1. Fancy hair ornaments, often used for weddings, proms or clubbing

2. Everyday hair accessories, which should be both practical and pretty

3. Hair accessories for children

Go fancy for prom and wedding hair accessories

Whether you want accessories for wedding 'dos, hair ornaments suitable for proms and other special events, or unique hair decorations for clubbing, there are many hair accessory distributors who will suit your needs. Don't neglect ever-popular rhinestone accessories, and be sure to take a peek at fiberoptic options, too.
Try:  Wholesale Hair Accessories has a great selection of fancy hair accessories, including hair gems, clips, combs, barrettes and rhinestone tiaras. Accessory Wholesale Inc. also has a good selection of bridal tiaras, pageant crowns, combs and hair clips wholesale. For something different, check out Luminence, which offers hair crystals and fiber-optic hair accessories.

Keep a great selection of everyday hair accessories

Keep a good stock of long and short hair accessories handy in a variety of styles. Be sure to have hair clips and hair sticks, as well as more trendy items like decorative pins on hand.
Try:  Hair Utopia has a nice selection of barrettes, decorative bobby pins, bows, hair snaps and buttons, head bands and more. Hair Era offers hair claws, ponytail holders, head bands, hair combs and decorative pins. Wholesale Jewelry and Accessories carries some different products, including hair switches, head scarves, picks, bands and more; just click on the "Wholesale Hair Goods" link in the left-hand menu.

Stock girls' hair accessories, too

Get one step ahead of the competition and keep children's hair accessories on hand. Little girls love ponytail holders and bows, and mommies often like their baby girls in fancy head bands and tiny clips.
Try:  Bizzy Bows by Barbara offers kid-friendly scrunchies and bows. Pretty Please Designs sells headbands for infants and girls, plus decorative ponytail holders. Yama Ribbons and Bows Co. Ltd. also offers wholesale children's head bands, clips and bows. Lil' Sugarplum sells no-slip baby and girl hair clips, as well as stick on bows and headbands.

• When stocking hair accessories for children--especially very young ones--be sure to consider comfort. Few mothers want their babies in adorable hair clips if those clips are going to slip and slide and cause their baby to cry because they are pulling delicate strands of hair.